Will Brumleve

1 week ago | fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten

PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school board is being asked to allow the high school’s wrestling program to be relaunched. Matt Greenburg, head coach of the Panther Paw Wrestling Club, pitched the idea to the board during its monthly meeting on Wednesday, April 16, noting that his youth wrestling club has built a “strong foundation” that should only continue as its wrestlers move up in grade level.

1 week ago | fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten

PAXTON — April jury trials for a Champaign man and an Urbana man charged in Ford County with armed robbery and felony theft have been pushed back to July. Ford County Circuit Court records show motions to continue were recently granted by Judge Matt Fitton in the criminal cases against Devin L. Starkey, 23, of Champaign, and Steffonce J. Moffitt, 22, of Urbana, who face charges alleging they robbed a person at gunpoint at a Paxton park.

1 week ago | fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten

PAXTON — The Paxton-Buckley-Loda school district has received multiple complaints, including at least two in the last month, alleging an elementary school STEM and technology teacher and volunteer junior high cross-country coach inappropriately touched students, the Ford County Chronicle has learned. Superintendent Travis Duley released 18 pages of heavily redacted documents to the Chronicle on Thursday, April 17, in response […]

1 week ago | fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten

PAXTON — On Arbor Day, the city of Paxton will dedicate newly planted trees at Pells Park in memory of two men who led lives of service to the community and its people. Mayor Bill Ingold said he will honor the late Ed Hanson and Jakub “Jake” Pietkiewicz during Paxton’s annual Arbor Day observance at 7:30 a.m. Friday, April 25, where the memorial trees are planted just north of the park’s new playground.

1 week ago | fordcountychronicle.com | Will Brumleve |Andrew Rosten

Will Brumleve/Ford County Chronicle PAXTON — The Paxton City Council on Tuesday, April 8, unanimously approved increasing the city’s number of available Class B liquor licenses, by one, to accommodate Paxton Kirby Foods’ plans to begin selling packaged liquor, including beer, wine and hard alcohol. The grocery store at 144 W. Pells St., which was known as the Paxton IGA prior its sale to Kirby Foods Inc.